CANBERRA News

Queanbeyan hospital problems affecting Canberra: doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The New South Wales rural health service says it will meet doctors later this month about concerns over understaffing at the new Queanbeyan hospital.

Research aims to protect kids in the snow (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
A Canberra researcher is combining with a United States university to study the risks of children injuring themselves while skiing or snowboarding.

Sky News rural analysis: Consumer trends good news for farmers (North Queensland Register)
In this week's Sky News and Rural Press video report, Canberra correspondent Lucy Knight details the latest on the carbon debate from the United States, as well as what changing consumer buying trends mean for farmers.

Tom deserves Origin chance (Daily Telegraph)
CANBERRA captain Alan Tongue says the recent form of destructive young Raiders forward Tom Learoyd-Lahrs warrants him a place in the NSW State of Origin side.

Planet Ark (Planet Ark)
SINGAPORE/CANBERRA - Australia's emissions trading laws look more likely to pass a hostile Senate after U.S. Congressional support for a similar climate bill eroded political opposition in Australia to carbon trading.

Major baseball mission for Australia (Herald Sun)
US MAJOR League Baseball is backing bold plans to have a new Australian national league up and running by November 2010.

Mullumbimby sprinter swaps spikes for sprigs | Rugby Union (Northern Star)
MULLUMBIMBY sprinter Kurt Mulcahy has declared his athletics career is over and he's now pursuing a career in rugby union. The 20-year-old has given up his scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and is playing union for ACT first division club the Gungahlin Eagles.

Ambitious plans for national baseball league (The West Australian)
America’s Major League Baseball is big backer of bold plans to have a new Australian national league up and running by November 2010. Ten years after the old Australian Baseball League folded, the Aus

Baseball to resurrect national league (News Mail)
AUSTRALIAN baseball officials have begun bold plans to resurrect a national league from next year.

Why is free-to-air TV still hogging sports coverage? (Crikey)
The Federal Government’s anti-siphoning list amounts to direct, government-approved theft from sports bodies, writes Bernard Keane . When is that going to change?